Wearing-shoe for wheelbarrows.



G. B. TALLMAN. WEARING SHOE FOB WHEELBARRDWS. APPLICATION r1121)MAR-8.1011.

993,805. Patented May 30, 1911.

A TTOR/VEY n15 cogwmmawn n c GEORGE B. TALLMAN, OF SUFFERN, NEW YORK.

WEARING-SHOE FOR WHEELBARROWS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. March 6, 1911.

Patented May 30, 1911.

Serial No. 612,642.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. TALLMAN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Suffern, in the county of Rockland and State of NewYork, have made and invented certain new and useful Improvements inWearing-Shoes for Wheelbarrows, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to protecting shoes for the lower ends ofwheelbarrow standards, the purpose of which is to protect the lower endof the standard from wear by contact with the ground; and the principalobject of my invention is to provide a protecting shoe for the purposestated which may be easily applied to the standard without providing ahole therein or otherwise specially preparing the standard, and whichshoe will be firmly secured to the standard in such a way that it willnot be likely to become displaced in use.

Other objects of my invention are to provide a protecting shoe which maybe easily and cheaply manufactured, and which will be simple andeffective for the purpose stated, and which may be readily removed fromthe standard when worn out and replaced by a new one.

With the objects above enumerated in view my invention consists in theimproved protecting shoe for wheelbarrow standards illustrated in theaccompanying drawing, described in the following specification, andparticularly claimed in the clauses of the concluding claim, and in suchmodifications thereof as will be obvious to those skill-ed in the art towhich my invention relates.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a view in side elevationillustrating the application of my device to a wheelbarrow standard;Fig. 2 is a view showing the standard upon a larger scale andillustrating the application of my device thereto, ant Fig. 3 is a viewshowing a section upon a plane indicated by the line 3, 3 Fig. 2.

In the drawing, 4 is one of two wheelbarrow standards located one uponeach side of the wheelbarrow, these standards being commonly ofsubstantially V shape with acurved lower end, this being the form inwhich such standards are usually made.

My improved protecting shoe is made up of two similar shoe members 5, 5having each a lower face adapted to contact with the ground and twovertical parallel side faces at right angles to said lower face, one ofwhich side faces is provided with a groove 6 of a form correspondingwith the lower end of the standard 4, the lower end of the standard andthe groove being curved in the embodiment of my invention illustrated.The shoe member 5 is provided with a hole 7 at right angles to theparallel sides thereof, said hole being located above the groove 6 andadjacent the concave side thereof, so that a bolt .8 whereby two similarshoe members are secured together and to the lower end of the standard 4to form a complete protecting member will pass above the lower portionof the standard.

A complete protecting shoe is formed by securing two such members as areabove described upon 0 positc sides of the lower end of the standard bymeans of the bolt 8, the grooves 6 of the two members then registeringwith one another and the curved lower end of the standard lying withinthe grooves as shown. The protecting shoe is thus clamped to thestandard and the stresses to which the shoe is subjected in use aretaken up by the walls of the groove, and not by the bolt, the onlystress upon the bolt being that produced in drawing the two memberstogether against the lower end of the standard. The thickness of theshoe members 5, and the depth of grooves 6, are preferably soproportioned that the inner adjacent vertical sides of the members areseparated slightly when the shoe is in place, as a better clampingaction is thereby procured, and movement of the shoe relative to or uponthe standard is avoided.

Having thus disclosed my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent:

1. A protecting shoe member for wheelbarrow standards having a lowerface adapted to contact with the ground and parallel side faces at rightangles to said lower face, one of which side faces is provided with agroove, said shoe member having a hole at right angles to said sidefaces and located above said groove.

2. A protecting shoe member for wheelbarrow standards havingalowcr faceadapted to contact with the ground and parallel side faces at rightangles to said lower face, one of which side faces is provided with .acurved groove, said shoe member having a hole at right angles to saidside faces and located above said groove and adjacent the concave sidethereof.

8. A protecting shoe for the lower end of a wheelbarrow standardcomprising two members located at the lower end of and upon oppositesides of the standard and which members project below the lower end ofthe standard and are provided each with a groove formed in the adjacentvertical surfaces of said members, and within which grooves the lowerend of the standard lies when the shoe is in place, and a bolt extendingthrough holes provided in said members whereby the same maybe secured tothe standard.

4. A protecting shoe for the lower end of a wheelbarrow standardcomprising two members located at the lower end of and upon oppositesides of the standard and which members project below the lower end ofthe standard and are provided each with a groove formed in the adjacentvertical surfaces of said members, and within which grooves the lowerend of the standard lies when the shoe is in place, and a bolt extendingthrough holes provided in said members whereby the same may be securedto the standard, said bolt being located above said groove.

Signed at Sufi'ern in the county of Rockland and State of New York this28th day of February, A. D. 1911.

GEORGE E. TALLMAN.

WVitnesses:

JOHN L. CRANE, EDGAR l/VHRITNER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents Washington, 1). 0.

